The phrase "article declared that the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referencing a statement or finding presented in a specific article, typically in academic or journalistic contexts.
Example: "The article declared that the new policy would significantly impact local businesses."
Alternatives: "the article stated that the" or "the article reported that the".
Witness the recent uproar when one of France's most prominent businessmen, Jean-Marie Messier, boss of Vivendi, a big media company (see article), declared that "the French cultural exception is dead".
A glowing editorial accompanying the article declared that the trial's significance "goes far beyond the treatment of recurrent or severe C. difficile" and predicted a spate of research into the benefits of fecal transplants for other diseases.
Condemning this view the article declared that the renovation and utilization of old equipment was economical and factories could "do more with less money". It criticized people who wanted to clean out and discard old equipment.
Without relying on others to make the charge, the article declared that the McCain campaign had "twisted Mr. Obama's words" to suggest he had compared Sarah Palin to a pig.
When "Couples," John Updike's tour de force of extramarital wanderlust set in a small New England town called Tarbox, came out in 1968, a Time magazine cover article declared that "the sexual scenes, and the language that accompanies them, are remarkably explicit, even for this new age of total freedom of expression".
An Ebony magazine article declared that the show was the biggest outlet for black actors in the history of the U.S. stage.
But the article declares that the law change was the work of "an international network of liberal activists determined to normalise pedophilia and decriminalise sex with children across the world".
Newspaper articles declared that the "pope of physics" had left Germany and that Princeton had become the new Vatican.
Front-page articles declared that the Italians had come to Xul to guard against the end of the world in 2012.
The article declared that unnamed experts had valued the marine databases at IBSS and the Marine Hydrophysical Institute in Sevastopol at more than $200 million, suggesting that the transfer of this data to the West amounted to a rip-off.
